Chapter Three Vocabulary

A major type of ecological community defined primarily by distinctive plant and animal groups

• Biome

• Terrain

• Natural Vegetation

• Overlap

Plant life that grows in a certain area if people have not changed the natural environment

• Natural Vegetation

• Prairie

• Grassland

• Forrests

The physical characteristics of the surface of the land

• Terrain

• Glaciers

• landmarks

• continents

the average daily high temperature and the overnight low, often used for comparison across climate regions

• Average daily temperature

• Elevation

• Mountains

• Time zones

This means to be recognizably different

• Distinct

• no..no..no

• or this one

• Not this one

Small area in a desert where water and vegetation are found

• Oasis

• Island chian

• Trees

• Canopy

This is an inland grassland area

• Prairie

• Coniferous

• Deciduous

• Tundra

Falling off or shed seasonally or periodically, trees such as oak and maple, which lose their leaves in autumn

• Deciduous

• Coniferous

• Oasis

• Wonderwall

Referring to vegetation having cones and needle-shaped leaves, including many evergreens, that keep their foliage throughout the winter.

• Coniferous (evergreens and have cones)

• Big trees

• Little trees

• Not the answer tree

This type of forest has both coniferous and deciduous trees

• Mixed forests

• Nottingham Forrest

• Not this one forrest

• The Shire